Image of the DayThe STS-135 crew ride in the Astrovan to Launch Pad 39A to board space shuttle Atlantis on the morning of...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden congratulates Launch Director Michael Leinbach, facing camera, in Firing Room Four of the Launch Control Center...This image, taken through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft, shows the final liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis as...This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch Pad...A dragonfly is seen at the edge of the lagoon near Launch Pad 39A on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at...The space shuttle Atlantis is revealed as the rotating service structure is rolled back at Launch Pad 39A on Thursday,...Space shuttle Atlantis is silhouetted on the Vehicle Assembly Building as it begins its journey from High Bay 3 in...A tour bus drives by a launch countdown sign inside the NASA Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, July 6, 2011...On July 5, STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson and pilot Doug Hurley perform touch-and-go landings aboard a Shuttle Training Aircraft at...The Cassini spacecraft observed three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet in this image...At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest built on a platform...Rhea emerges ... After being occulted by the larger moon Titan. Occultation is a celestial event in which a larger...On June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter angled its orbit 65° to the west, allowing the spacecraft's cameras to...The doors to the White Room, which provide entry to space shuttle Atlantis' crew compartment, is seen here at the...Attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum participated in spacewalk training in...The sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean silhouetting space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters on Launch...A 'real-time data translator' machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. Too...Fire acts differently in space than on Earth. Sandra Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center, demonstrates just...Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa may not be Superman, but in the microgravity of space, he can fly...Space shuttle Discovery is lowered into position beside its external tank and solid rocket boosters inside the Vehicle Assembly Building...Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are pictured during water egress training in a large indoor pool at Ellington Air...NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene on June 18, 2011, beaming down raw...In this image from November 2010, the U.S. Air Force's ACAT F-16D flew through Sierra Nevada canyons and past peaks...Newly released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex...This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero...Taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011, this image is of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, inside the...The NASA logo on Bldg. 703 at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., is reflected in the 2.5-meter...NASA continued preparations for the future of space exploration with the installation of a 35,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank atop the...On Saturday, June 11, 2011, International Space Station astronaut Ron Garan used a high definition camera to film one of...A Delta II rocket launches with the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft payload from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base,...The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Wednesday, June 8, 2011, (4:12 p.m. EDT, Tuesday,...Launch pad engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are dwarfed by the gantry mechanisms at the base of the...The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft is seen at the launch pad after being raised into vertical position on Sunday, June 5,...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is seen in silhouette, left, as he shook hands with workers atop the Mobile Launch Platform...The STS-134 crew pose for a group photograph shortly after landing aboard the space shuttle Endeavour at the Shuttle Landing...Space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-134 mission made its final landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center,...A vapor trail follows space shuttle Endeavour as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy...Earth's atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle Endeavour are the subject...Backdropped by a night time view of the Earth and the starry sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is photographed docked...A fish-eye lens attached to an electronic still camera was used to capture this image of NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff...
